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Ten Photos to Shake the World (TPSW) is ASSIST’s pioneer Social Initiative which was launched in 2011 in the Philippines. It is an annual photo competition, developed to stir people’s awareness about sustainable lifestyle and inclusive growth, and to encourage involvement on social action through photography.

AsianNGO, media partner at this year's Social Capital Markets (SOCAP13) conference at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco last 2-6 September, joined discussions on accelerating the good economy, impact investing on social enterprises, the changing landscape of public health care, and long-term development financing.

ASSIST Group Managing Director, Sreenivas Narayanan, participates at the 3rd Global Networking Conference on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) in developing and transition countries, "Putting decoupling into action: moving to scale" in Montreux, Switzerland on September 2-6, 2013.

The two sessions on Responsibility Hygiene Management for project HEALTHY was held on August 20-23, 2013 while the Project PROSPECT’s the Best Practice Exchange Forum in Energy Management System ISO 50001:2011 was on August 28, 2013, both events held in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

ASSIST and METRO Cash & Carry organized the Capacity Building Training Batch 1 & 2 on May 16-17 followed by the launch of the HEALTHY Road Show at the Metro Cash & Carry on 23 May 2013. Two sessions on Food Safety 101 on Meat Products Training for Metro employees was organized on June 20-21 and June 27-28, 2013.

ASSIST together with GIZ organized trainings for plumbers on good and green plumbing practices in collaboration with Industrial Training Institute(ITI) College in Shimla on June 19-21, 2013 and with Maharashtra Environmental Engineering Training and Research Academy (MEETRA) Training Institute in Nashik on June 26-27, 2013.

Advancing Carbon Neutral Economy (ACE), an 18-month project co-financed by DEG and implemented by ASSIST and TUV NORD, came to an end together with the Best Practices Forum event held in Shanghai, China on 7 May 2013.

The SWITCH-Asia Project was introduced by the delegation of the European Commission represented by Hans Farnhammer and Matthieu Penot together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources represented by Undersecretary Manuel D. Gerochi with the partnership of ASSIST at the Eastwood Richmonde Hotel in Quezon City on April 16, 2013.